BLUES will be not only gunning for the Championship title over the next fortnight, but attempting to enter the record books.

BLUES will be not only gunning for the Championship title over the next fortnight, but attempting to enter the record books.

Should they win their remaining two games they will not only lift silverware and return to the Premiership, but also equal the record number of points collected in a season.

Barry Fry's Second Division title winners of 1994-95 totted up 89 points from 46 games, the best mark in club history. But Steve Bruce's side need just one more win to set a new best for league victories in a season of 26.

Fry's team - playing in what was the old Third Division remember - won 25 matches as did Jim Smith's 1984-85 Second Division promotion winners.

Already Blues have surpassed the number of points Smith's men - who were runners-up to Oxford United - finished with, 82.

And when Blues were last competing at this level under Trevor Francis and made the play-offs three seasons in a row, their highest points tally was 81 in 1998-99. When Bruce led Blues to promotion via the play-off final in 2002, it was on the back of a fifth-placed finish and 76 points.

It is 52 years since Blues last won the Championship, what was then the Second Division. They won 22 of their 42 games and posted 58 points, which is the equivalent of 76 points under the three points for a win system.

In 1947-48 when Blues won the same league, it was with 59 points from 42 games (the equivalent of 77 points nowadays). They drew 15 matches that season.

Of course, in those days Blues had four less fixtures yet the Championship in its present form has probably never been as tough.

Meanwhile, Blues can clinch the Central Reserve League title with a draw in their final game at Shrewbury Town tomorrow (7pm).